Windows Vista Service Pack Problems

Posted by packetmad as OS, Windows

Something went wrong with my gaming PC recently and it started BSODing on a regular basis. During these crashes I managed to lose or corrupt something in Vista.

I went for a clean install after searching a bunch of forum posts, few of which helped.
Most said my memory was suspect, but my GTX260′s fan wasn’t spinning up so I figured that was the problem. Yay for more expensive.

Anyway, the problem with the re-install was applying service packs. What a piece of work this turned out to be.

Win32 Perl

Posted by packetmad as OS, Perl, Scripting, Windows

Actually did my first win32 perl script at work today. What a pita that can be when you are changing from *n?x perl. Most of the problems I encountered were editor issues. Guess I should have just gotten vi for Windows and been done with it.

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# First we’ll change into the directory passed in the command line
###
$workdirectory = @ARGV[0];
#print (“$workdirectory\n”);
chdir (“$workdirectory”) || die “cannot cd to $workdirectory”;

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# Lets get a numeric date for use in naming the zip files
###
$insanedate = `date /t`;
# print $insanedate;
$insanedate =~ /.*?(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})/;
$sanedate = “$1$2$3″;
# print “$sanedate\n”;

Security Audit Time Again!

Posted by packetmad as Linux, OS, Unix, Windows

So, I’m sitting there, minding my own business because it’s towards the end of the work day and I just want to get home. Then an email comes in, another security audit is coming down the pipe. No big deal, been through them before, but they are a pain in the ass.